Posted on 02/22/2006 11:10:02 AM PST by PURPLE SHARK
Newton TAB (Feb. 22, 2013) - Today Superintendent Jeffrey Young announced the hiring of the first transgender principal in Newton. Mr. Young declared that his selection came "after a nationwide search for the best possible principal" and that "his/her sexual orientation had nothing to do with his selection." Nevertheless, transgender groups across America applauded his choice, since this also represents the first transgender principal in the nation. Retiring Mayor David Cohen was thrilled with Young's selection and cited it as yet "another example of Newton's commitment to tolerance and diversity."
After a two-year nationwide search which involved soliciting, researching, and interviewing dozens of candidates for the position of principal for both Newton high schools, Superintendent Jeffrey Young has chosen two openly gay principals. By all indications, Newton is the first city in the nation to hire gay principals for both of its high schools. Yet Mr. Young wants us to believe that A) these two educators were the most qualified available candidates for the job and B) it is only a mere coincidence that they are both gay.
Do you believe him?
Newton gay activists and educators have for over a decade tried to impose their agenda on our school system. In 1998 they found an enthusiastic leader in the new superintendent, Mr. Young, who for reasons that the public can only speculate, embarked upon a mission of making the Newton Public Schools the gay standard bearer in public education. He's never offered any justification or explanation for his peculiar obsession. And woe to anyone in the school department or School Committee who dares to question his motives.
The high school gay organizations can boast of being the first in the state. Annual gay days are commonplace. Elementary education is interspersed with examples of the gay lifestyle. Alternative families, meaning gay families, are highlighted in elementary classrooms. Pictures of two mommies adorn the hallways; stories of two daddies are common on reading lists. It's even becoming increasing rare to find a straight male elementary school teacher.
Several years ago, a Burr school first grade teacher who chose to out himself to his class of 6-year-olds was lauded as a hero by Mr. Young, who then went into hiding when Good Morning America came calling.
Our schools have been praised in Joey Magazine, a publication for gay teenagers, while Mr. Young has received numerous accolades in Bay Windows, the Boston gay weekly. Teachers have long since formed a group called ANGLE - the Association of Newton Gay and Lesbian Educators.
Parents, students and teachers across the city readily agree that gay teachers are becoming so numerous in the school system it's almost a given that retiring teachers are replaced with gay teachers.
All of this might make perfect sense in those few places in America where gays are in the majority, or at least a sizeable minority. It would be logical, for example, for a Key West or Provincetown superintendent to go out of his way to hire gay principals and teachers. But it does not make any sense in Newton. The demographics are roughly the same here as they were 20 years ago. And with the exception of Mr. Young's school department, there has been no significant migration of gays into our city from across America.
Meanwhile, Mr. Young still smugly refuses to acknowledge that a major part of his legacy has been the implementation of the gay agenda and the continuous hiring of gay staff.
Consider the case of Jennifer Price and Thomas Gwin, the finalists for the job of principal of Newton North.
Miss Price is a 34-year-old former teacher in the Maynard Public Schools. She also served for a time as a housemaster at Lincoln-Sudbury High School. For the past few years, she has been working towards a doctorate in education at Harvard.
Mr. Gwin is a lifelong Newton resident who taught in the Newton schools for over 26 years, first as a science teacher at Day Middle, then for 15 years as head of the science department at Newton North. He has been the principal at Winchester High School since 2003, where (not coincidentally) former Newton North principal Jim Marini is the superintendent of schools.
Suffice it to say, by the time Jenny Price entered elementary school Tom Gwin wasalready teaching elementary school. In Newton.
But despite his impressive credentials, Mr. Gwin was passed over in favor of Miss Price, who, in addition to her modest academic credentials, held that one trump card that Mr. Gwin could not - she is a gay female. And in the world of Jeffrey Young this is an important prerequisite for a top administrative position. Knowing Mr. Young, he could hardly be expected to pass up the opportunity to hire the first openly gay female high school principal in the state, a milestone that will surely earn him the everlasting affection of gay organizations nationwide. And in the lingo of Miss Price's Generation X (or is it Y?), this is like, yah know, totally ahhsome!
Yet it was such a blatant act of bias and discrimination against Mr. Gwin, who was willing to give up the highly coveted position of principal of Winchester High in order to return to his original home of Newton North. Mr. Young's message is loud and clear- straight white males need not apply.
Yes, it's true that the search committee handed Mr. Young the final four candidates. And I will not contradict members of the committee - some of whom are personal friends - that they did not know that either of the two selected principals was gay. But Mr. Young soon found out, since all it really took was a few extra clicks on the computer to fully research them.
So given Mr. Young's unusual track record exemplified by his unorthodox preference for gay educators, it is more than reasonable to conclude that he chose these two high school principals preciselybecause they are gay. Now, in addition to gay elementary and middle school principals, Mr. Young has secured the highest academic rung of the Newton schools with not one, but two gay high school principals.
But it's only a coincidence, you see. Just ask him. And within about seven years, when Mr. Young hires the first transgender principal in America, rest assured, this person will undoubtedly be the best qualified for the job.
Tom Mountain can be reached at tmount117@hotmail.com. He will be discussing this column on Wednesday evening at 8:30 on Newton Talk on NewTV.
Newton MA gets, exactly what Newton MA deserves to get.
Massachusetts: Bride of Berkeley
Apparently the writer hasn't become acquainted with commas.
If the good people of Newton haven't elected a school board that will fire this SOB for over a decade, then they obviously deserve what they're going to get.
Massachusetts: No tax is too big and no outrage is too small. What a bunch of nuts(no pun intended).
Wow! It was just last week we learned of Newton hiring a male and female gay principals.
Now they've gone and hired a transgendered principal!
Wonder which bathroom they use? Oh, it's Newton. They probably have unisex bathrooms in the elementary schools.
Newton bump! I wonder what is next?
Newton: Proud to be the butt of jokes.
It's even becoming increasing rare to find a straight male elementary school teacher.
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well, duh. I have come across very few males (except for gym) at all in the elementary school teaching ranks (my kids have been public school educated in Maryland, ages 14-24, so had kids in elementary school from 1988 through 2002).
just a thought.
Perversion ping
Mississippi Queen, indeed.
MA? Oh, okay. I was worried for a minute it may have happened in the US.
Beyond marital status, no one has any business discussing their own sex life with 6-year-olds, ever. I mean no one. Not heterosexuals, not celibates, not eunuchs, not homosexuals, no one. 6-year-olds should not know very much about sex, they don't understand and don't really care. What is it about homosexuals that demands that they flaunt their perversions to people whose business it is not, and could care less? This person should not be in contact with children.
I am happy to hear that Mr./Ms. Garrison found a job back east. Having to deal with Mr. Slave and all those brats at South Park elementary probably was too much for him/her to bare.
Change the names of the teams to "Rump Rangers"?
Sickos.
Nobody in education seems to give a damn about the kids.
Every wacko has a 'right' to somehow be engaged in the education system.
Stories like this make one long for the good old days of lynchings, tar and feathers.
Funny how "education" doesn't seem to matter to these self centered idiots.
Past time for vouchers. The public school system is broken.
Newton is not that big of a place, nor is it that freaky compared to some of the other liberal meccas. In fact, to walk down the street in Newton Center you'd think you were in any other nice town.
However, the dumbass stuff they do there is a prime example of the crap people let slide when they are to affluent to notice or care.
Deep down, he hates kids and is also fighting his own homosexual desires and fears...just my guess
I'm with you.....any adult who "outs" themselves or discusses THEIR sexual life with an elementary school child should be fired without recourse.
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